I know, I wonder the same thing about one of my friends who is a naturopathic doctor and believes in homeopathy, thetahealing, and all of that nonsense. She is extremely intelligent and all around a wonderful person. WTF??
Because that doesn’t fit into the personal agenda of CTists. Notice how the “bad guy” is always the people on the opposite side of the political spectrum from those putting forth the theory?
I can see how the incident would generate conspiracy theories:
-after almost 12 years, it looks like the FBI has no clue of what they are doing (reports of Russian warnings about these two)
-the older one travels to Russia (for training/indoctrination) into one of the world’s hotbeds of militant Islam (no notice taken)
-these two were allowed to bring backpacks/bags to the marathon end point (no notice by security)
If the reports (about Russian intelligence warnings) are true, the FBI has a lot to answer for.
The Reason is to take civil liberties and turn us all into batteries, “never let a good crisis go to waste” - Rahm Emanuel
The conspiracy theories started within a few hours of the bombing. The public didn’t hear about the Tsarnaevs for days.
Not quite. The FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev and some of his relatives in 2011 after getting warnings from Russian intelligence, but didn’t find any evidence he was a potential terrorist. The FBI asked the Russians for more information and didn’t receive any, so the file was closed.
We don’t know that that’s why we went to Russia or that he went to Chechnya. It seems very possible but so far no evidence has turned up.
There was nothing unusual about that. You can see from photos of the event that lots of people had backpacks and it was a large crowd.
What, like the totally impossible human-beings-as-batteries stuff in The Matrix- which was a work of fiction and not a documentary, by the way? 
Awesome typo.
Indeed. That is the type of “slip” that entire CTs are built upon.
What a giveaway!
Now a Florida college professor is claiming the event “closely resembles a mass-casualty drill, which for training purposes are designed to be as lifelike as possible.” :rolleyes:
And my brother has posted some CT video on FB today claiming that 3 more of these “drills” are scheduled for the next month. Oh boy.
Salon article on the subject.
Mental illness makes you less charitable to the suffering of others.
You recognize that there’s something wrong with you, but no one is able or willing to help you. On the contrary, people seem to expect you to solve your own problems, and they seem to blame you if you are unable to rise out of it. They blame you for not wanting to get better
The frustrating part is it’s true that people who overcome mental illness do so through their own volition. But it takes a lot of effort and often there are setbacks. And it’s true that there are people who remain unsympathetic to your struggle. They say things like “I don’t know what your problem is. You have a great life. You should be more thankful you’re not some starving orphan in India.”
Meanwhile you see these tragedies in the news and learn there’s a hierarchy for kindness, sympathy, and understanding, and your mental illness rates much lower than the six-year-olds who were killed by a psycho bringing a gun to an elementary school, or the victims who suffered excruciating injuries from a bomb blast. Their suffering is more important than yours. Those victims are deemed to be worthier of help than you. After all, you brought your own problems on yourself by “choosing” to be mentally ill. You also, at heart, feel guilty for moping around about your own woes when those people have “real problems.”
So you go into denial. You deny their problems the same way they have denied yours. There weren’t really victims, you tell yourself. They just want to siphon sympathy away from you and make you cater to their own selfish whims. These people are soulless; they are hurting you by ignoring your pain and brainwashing you into believing that your problems are easy to solve but you just don’t want it enough. They’re using your guilt as a weapon against you, and the people who were unfortunately caught up in the events are the tools.
If those stories are fake, there’s no reason to feel guilty that the public cares about the death tolls in school shootings but not about your brain’s devastating carnage on you. And isn’t everyone always saying that your problems are all your fault but you don’t try hard enough to prevent them? Well, why can’t those “victims” help themselves? Why do they have to take from you? You’re the one at the disadvantage, not them.
Those are probably the strongest influences: neglect and guilt. People who have been dismissed or ridiculed for their problems don’t see why they should be required to feel sorry for others whose problems “may not have happened” or “are the fault of the victims.” That is how many of them are taught to view the world.
There are other factors (party politicians who seize every opportunity to criticize the other side, people who want support for their own pet cause, narcissism, etc.). The example above fits the generalized description of a schizophrenia patient, though other disorders like Bipolar, clinical depression, etc. sometimes produce schizophrenic like thoughts, particularly when they are around people who accuse them of being “lazy” or “ungrateful” or “doing it for attention.”
So, wouldn’t that be a good thing and the whole reason for doing practice drills? So people can respond to real world events.
In other news… OMG, airplane looses power and pilot was able to safely land because it was like he’d practiced in a flight simulator! Proof that the government is trying to cause airline crashes!
I think you misunderstand. People are saying that this was a faked drill and that the people with legs blown off etc were amputee “crisis actors”. Seriously, I’ve seen people trying to claim that a series of photos (taken in burst mode, 2-3 frames per second) showed somebody strapping prosthetics onto Jeff Bauman (the man who lost both legs in the first explosion) and then signalling to the other “actors”.
If you want to see this sort of mentality, Google “clueforums”. Based on the Boston thread on there, their modus operandi seems to be to open a thread as soon as news breaks, decide it’s a false flag and then analyse each new photograph using that as a starting point.
The FBI did interview the older brother.
An ethnic Chechen visiting Russia, where his mother lives, is not a red flag. Only Russia would have shown up on his passport, not Chechnya. I’m not sure Chechnya counts as a hotbed of militant Islam (the civil war there is not primarily about religion) but Russia as a whole certainly is not a known Muslim terrorist training zone.
Lots of people carry backpacks. You might have noticed this.
God, this is crap. Conspiracy theorists: try harder!
I heartily recommend Charlie Brooker’s take on this, from last night’s 10 O’Clock Live show (the closest thing the UK has to The Daily Show). If you think Jon Stewart is harsh you ain’t seen nothing yet.
(Note to US viewers: the guy in the hotel ads referenced is comedian Lenny Henry, an affable sort currently shilling for Premier Inn).
Honestly I think a lot of these people suffer from a huge fear of lack of control over their lives. I think if anyone researched it, you’d find a correlation between an increase in the prevalence and support of CTs during times of economic hardship. It’s a way of putting the seemingly chaotic events of the world into a plot line as a way of calming the chaos. It’s hard to accept that things happen for separate reasons or no reason at all, I can imagine it’s sort of like religion in a way. Psychologically it provides a reason for why bad things happen in the world, coupled with the idea that you’re one of the few special people who actually “sees” what’s happening, I expect it gives a lot of understanding and meaning to what is essentially a chaotic and meaningless existence.